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SubjectRe: highpoint driver problem, 2.4.21-ac4
Wil Reichert wrote:
>> could you try the attachted patch, and report if this changes
>> something?
>
>
> Applied patch & rebuilt with hpt366 as a module. No more oops, dmesg
> prints the following:
>
> HPT372A: IDE controller at PCI slot 01:0b.0 HPT372A: chipset revision
> 2 HPT372A: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later hpt: HPT372N
> detected, using 372N timing. FREQ: 126 PLL: 45 hpt: no known IDE
> timings, disabling DMA. hpt: no known IDE timings, disabling DMA.

it looks like the controller is detected as a HPT372N instead of a
HPT372A. the attached patch disables this check.

>
> It has 2 drives attached to it, neither seems to be found.
>
> Other things: the 2.5.xx seems to work ok and my board supports some
> 'RAID 1.5' which seems to be nothing more than PR crap and some
> firmware hacks. Could that cause problems?

raid 15 is a mirrored raid 5, which should provide high availability and
good performance (even in the case of a disk failure). but in this case
it is nothing more than a software solution. ;)

>
> Wil

bye,
wilfried
--- linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c.orig 2003-07-07 19:19:25.000000000 +0200
+++ linux/drivers/ide/pci/hpt366.c 2003-07-07 19:19:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -889,8 +889,10 @@ static int __init init_hpt37x(struct pci
did = inb(dmabase + 0x22);
rid = inb(dmabase + 0x28);

+#if 0
if((did == 4 && rid == 6) || (did == 5 && rid > 1))
is_372n = 1;
+#endif
}

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